This is stupid. I use cgi all the time. My cheap Hetzner single core vps can fork a Linux process 10k times a second, so I don't want to hear about forking being too slow until Django can serve pages that fast.

Cgi is still the simplest way to get a basic web script running, without worrying about lingering state between page hits, etc. Doesn't Linus always shut down such discussions regarding the Linux kernel with "we don't break userspace"? Python should learn something from that.